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[grimae]

im going to be very mature and ask for 69

Jangar - Anda Union I CAN EXPLAIN.

[slavicafire]

I also forgot to mention in my ask earlier In italy, any cough, cold or fever could be helped by some milk and honey. It gets to the point to a friend of mine refused to take medication for a sinusitis because she was already taking honey (me and my family all hate honey so I was spared the pain) And this is more a thing of my family, but until recently we didn't have enough space in the freezer for just ice, so on bruises as a kid we would put frozen veggies

oh yeah, frozen vegetables, frozen meat, frozen kluski, the whole lot.

[bi-naesala]

Happy ending for Knoll for @brand-dad

Knoll had given up. Lyon's dream was dead, Grado destroyed.

And yet... and yet he didn't let go, or better, the people he got to meet in this incredible if not bizarre journey didn't let him. They latched onto him, like he had latched onto his dead King and his dead dream, but these people are not dead; their hearts beat and there's light in their eyes.

Now... he doesn't know if he has a purpose yet but he has friends, maybe even a family, and if anything, he is curious to see where this path will lead them - to the reconstruction of Grado, he hopes, in honor of the dream that was so dear to him.

[randomnameless]

about your rivough post... its possible that the rivough chief had beef with granbell and not darna itself. if we take the narrator's bias towards granbell/agustria/lenster as them being from one of those nations (i subscribe to the theory that the narrator is finn, because i find it thematically appropriate, even if there is no evidence), those three nations seem to have kind of monopolized the crusader's cult (cont)

(notice how they all talk big about their crusader lineage making all their actions justified, but places like thracia and isaach are considered barbaric despite being founded by crusaders too). for rivough to attack darna could be seen as attacking a symbol of that view (kinda like a terrorist attack?). of course that doesnt make the action any better             

i was going to answer this weekend but i had to go to Versailles and fuck this city so i need some rivough thoughts to function again

The narrator being pretty “Leonster and pals” oriented either means that Finn wrote it, or Dorias’ ghost did it.

More seriously, I think Silesse is mentionned by the narrator as the land of crusader Sety (iirc?) and Silesse isn’t painted as a savage land ruled by barbarians. OTOH, Miletos had no crusaders but they’re eons away from Verdane.

We don’t see a lot of Isaachians talking about Odo (Saint Odo?) but again, we don’t meet a lot of Isaachians bar the “i’m so glad you saved us thks!”. Maybe Galzus’ dad was more pissed then Mananan at the second rate treatment the descendants of Crusader Odo had from the various “civilised” persons, but why would Mananan destroy Rivough then? Because they started a “war” that, even if they agreed with it, couldn’t afford? As in “we’re pissed to be called savages we had a crusader for naga’s sake” but Mananan knew that if he were to fight against Granvalle he’d lose no matter what, so he accepted to be called a barbarian to prevent a war?

(that thinking wouldn’t have saved them, the civilised nations showed that they couldn’t give a fig about barbarians, so if you accept to be called a barbarian you are going to be “civilised” by conquest sooner or later)

We don’t have a clue, and, most likely won’t in any upcoming remake :’(

Still, the fact that the Rivough royals are also major odos, unlike Holyn, made me see this in another light - maybe Rivough chief went to Darna to have some sort of authority to face Mananan and say that his clan/son should be the next King of Isaach because he has the brand in some “i’m holier than you” bullshit, but the head priest of Darna (who’s actually from Velthomer so totally biased against savages) told Rivough Chief that no, since his son’s brand came from a woman he was never going to inherit Isaach’s throne (and it’s totally different in Velthomer’s case because Vala might have been a woman, the gods made it sure that her heirs who had the brand were men like Viccy and Arvis), or he was no crusader to begin with, or worse, that his brand and Ayra’s sister’s brand were fake/unnatural or something like that.

Pissed, he attacked them, and the rest is history.

I’m sure there must be a link between the attack on Darna and the fact that Rivough managed to secure a major blooded carrier from Mananan’s eldest child.

Maybe Rivough’s Chief wanted to sit on Mananan’s throne, or to secure the Balmung for his clan, or, idk, make his own independant country (maybe Rivough was the Alster of Isaach ?) but the oracles of Darna told him to fig off so he went bananas.

Or maybe Rivough Chief wanted to attack Granvalle after, maybe, Reptor’s comments on savages and decided to start with Darna ; Mananan couldn’t tell him to stop the Balmung did it (and Mananan killed his daughter or, as evey mother does, she died in childbirth).

I’d like to see Ayra talk about this (her sister) in some remake, or some kind of other material - since it’s pretty sure now that Galzus will never talk about his family.

or better, a comment between Reptor and Ayra during a potential battle convo where he calls her and her dad fools who fell for his trap - he insulted the rivoughs on purpose knowing they were going to degenerate and Mananan would have to get rid of one of his own Balmung candidates

kill that, maybe a Veld like, but not Reptor.

[lanonima]

brand-dad replied to your post: why draw women in skimpy armor when you can draw a...

maille is a pain in teh ass to draw, gambeson for the win

I am actually really fond of gambesons too! but maile protects the gambeson from being damaged LOL

I have some cheats so it doesn’t look that much like maile right now but it will once it’s colored (hopefully, trying out something new right now)

[deetvar-moved]

sigurd might be good hearted, but both him and deirdre lack enough insight to be good rulers imo. there's a reason why sigurd was so easily manipulated into conquering half the continent, and trusting someone who seems to have turned back on their allies at least two times was, to put it harshly, quite dumb (though understandable given sigurd's bad situation at the moment). he's way too ruled by emotions to be an effective ruler

But Sigurd wasn’t manipulated, at all. He was following orders, and somehow he couldn’t maintain order in Agustria for just a year’s time? He has the army on his back, and he couldn’t handle some officials? Could has easily rationalized his actions under the basic imperative given to him by Belhalla as “governing the people.”As for Alvis, Sigurd asks Claude his opinion and the net answer is “IDK.” There is no reason for Sigurd to believe that Alvis would betray him. Yes from an audience perspective it’s quite obvious, but to be fair there has never been a moment where Alvis has even been anything but courteous to Sigurd. I will give the whole “we knew you were innocent the whole time” thing is a bit too clean for me to buy, but again is kind of a case where the audience knows more than the player does. It’s kind of like Palpatine, we know Palpatine is the Sith Lord but from an in-universe perspective it’s genuinely hard to believe that Palpatine is the Sith Lord. So yeah, Sigurd’s actions are dumb but from his perspective? Less so?TLDR; I don’t think Sigurd’s flaw is that he’s necessarily easily manipulated. He’s just not a person who cant do politics, he’s a knight. He would make for a great general but not all generals can actually rule. 

[fe-pride-edits]

ace arvis!

Here you are!

[card-queen]

Happy Birthday @brand-dad

I’m so happy to draw Galzus because Mareeta is one of my absolute faaaavourite characters and drawing her papa is an honour! Plus, drawing Thracia characters is always a pleasure!

Hope you had a terrific day! <3